Just another day in the office… Dude and Walter stopped by in search of new flooring after The Dude’s rug was micturated upon. When told we are an online retailer only, mayhem ensued.
Happy Halloween from a few of the NUTS at Villa Lagoon Tile!
Villa Lagoon Tile’s patterns adorn some of the most charming miniature rooms. Sylvia de Groot, a highly skilled Dutch artist of charming scale model rooms and chateaux uses our Villa Lagoon Tiles Coastal Collection in many of her projects..
Her Chambre de Séraphine has a balcony and bathroom floor of our Trapani “Midnight”. This tile is a Villa Lagoon Tile exclusive and was originally designed by Lundy Wilder for a master bedroom floor.
The potting bench on the balcony has a bit of spilled dirt but this bathroom does look like it needs a good scrubbing !
Another room has tiny tiles of our exclusive Italian Trellis pattern in Taupe and a border tile of Shell Trellis
Another project, a little Greek house has our Trapani tile in the “Azul Frost”.
Back in 2011 ago Kathi Laugherty let us know that she was using our tile in one of her scale model projects.
She cut each VLT exclusive Savona “Beach” tile individually and wrote about it on her blog post.
Her mini beach house kitchen looks wonderfully cozy and whimsical.
We are delighted that miniaturists like our tile for their projects. If you know of others, please drop us an email.
We were so happy to have been interviewed by NPR’s David Greene of Morning Edition.
This brief nationally broadcast radio piece brought us thousands of new visitors to the website.
WE WELCOME ALL OUR NEW VISITORS !
And while we do not object to the concept of sales tax for Internet sales, we just hope some simple method of payment will be devised, something like Europe’s VAT. We have 3077 individual counties in the USA, all with individual sales tax rates. Whew!!
Update: As of October 2015, we have discontinued advertising the ceramic and porcelain tile murals on our website, in order to tighten our focus on cement tile. For purchase inquiries, please contact us, and ask for Dave.
The original, September 2012 post:
Of course Villa Lagoon Tile is home to artist, designer and cement tile expert Lundy Wilder, but we also keep our eye on the future. While we specialize in making it easy to bring the old-world charm and beauty of hand-made cement tile to your home or business, we love all beautiful tile, whether the techniques are old or new.
We are proud to announce our newest line of tile products: tile murals. Thanks to advancements in materials and dye sublimation printing, we can produce beautiful and durable tile products with printed images… painting reproduction, photographs, digital art, you name it! Break that image across a large grid of tiles, and now you have a beautiful tile mural, limited only by your installation space. Villa Lagoon Tile partner Dave Perry has made it his mission to study these processes and source the finest in materials and techniques to beautify your projects.
Our catalog of stock images for mural production is now available online, and debuts with more than 8,400 images. Ranging from classics like Van Gogh’s Starry Nights and Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to modern marvels such as shuttle launches and Times Square, you’ll be amazed at the variety.
Not enough for you? We can use your own photographs, logos and art for truly custom tile murals! Spread your company logo across the wall behind the reception desk, put images of your own restaurant’s menu items on an accent wall near the entrance, the possibilities are endless. For questions, ordering or submitting your own work for custom murals, as always contact Villa Lagoon Tile, and ask for Dave.
We’ve moved! Our old blog, hosted at Blogger, has now been moved to the Villa Lagoon Tile home domain, here at https://www.villalagoontile.com/blog/ . We expect the new platform and new look will help us bring you more news and design ideas faster!
Without a doubt, The Colbert Report is the funniest show on TV. I wish it was on big 3 network TV so all the public would see it. But would they watch ?
We are enchanted by Sonia Gill and producer Mariana Hellmund’s video series about Sonia’s Travels. Even tho we only get a trip out of the USA once or twice a year (usually once), we feel like we have had a mini vacation w/ some exotic inspiration when we watch the latest installment of their short flicks.
Today is the garden behind Notre Dame…who knew ? Sonia of course.
We recently entered a design contest sponsored by Laurel’s Originals in Costa Rica. We submitted a small run design that used our Pescado “Caribbean” Cement Tile and Shell Scroll “Azul” tiles and WON !
Laurel Anderson sent us a wonderful hand painted canvas floor cloth rug in our winning design. We haver given Laurel permission to offer her colorful canvas rugs in some of our tile designs. Be sure to check out her website.
This is the way to get our great tile designs in a durable, yet lightweight, portable format.